Perth 2012: Annual Conference

News from the Event

Conference learnings available

Bushfire CRC CEO Gary Morgan discusses natural hazards research with Channel 10.

Resources from the Bushfire CRC and AFAC annual conference are now available for ongoing learning and training in the emergency services and for the broader research community.

Conference shines in Perth

The Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service won the research utilisation award

In a week of highlights, the Research Forum, Student Showcase and research utilisation award were proud moments for the Bushfire CRC at our joint annual conference with AFAC in Perth in late August.

Biggest emergency management conference in Australasia comes to Perth

The 19th AFAC and Bushfire CRC Conference 2012 will be held in Perth, Western Australia, from 28-31 August, 2012, attracting more than 1000 people in emergency services throughout Australasia and high calibre presenters from around the world.

Research on show at Perth conference

A record number of research posters will be on show at the annual Bushfire CRC and AFAC conference this year, with over 80 posters from Bushfire CRC researchers on show, explaining their research and how it will benefit you.

Professional development at the conference helps you learn

The last day of the Bushfire CRC and AFAC annual conference, Friday 31 August, is devoted to professional development sessions.

Recognising the best use of research

Research Utilisation Award trophy_teaser

Applications are now being sought for the new Bushfire CRC Research Utilisation Award – is your agency worthy of recognition?

Launch - Diverse Country, Common Ground

The annual conference program is now available and was launched in Melbourne in April.

Register now for early conference rates

Early Bird Registrations for the annual conference are now open.

Call for papers for 2012 AFAC and Bushfire CRC conference

A Call for Papers is out for the 2012 AFAC and Bushfire CRC Conference.

Excellence in Utilisation of Bushfire CRC Research

Posted: 40 weeks 1 day ago

At this year’s conference the Bushfire CRC introduced a new award for Excellence in Utilisation of Bushfire CRC Research, acknowledging agencies demonstrating effective uptake of Bushfire CRC research into their business. Congratulations to the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service for taking out the inaugural award for their utilisation of Bushfire CRC expertise in...

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Dr Noreen Krusel

Research Utilisation Manager Bushfire CRC

What a conference!

Posted: 40 weeks 1 day ago

Wow, what a week! The Bushfire CRC and AFAC conference was one of the best ever. There were so many highlights. It was great to see so many of our researchers engaged and enjoying the time.

The posters were all great this year, as one of the judging panel members it was so hard to determine the winner, there we so many which could have won, but in the end well done...

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Dr Richard Thornton

Deputy CEO and Research Director Bushfire CRC

Student Showcase success

Posted: 40 weeks 2 days ago

The Student Showcase was one of my favourite aspects of this year’s conference, and was well received by both those who presented and attended. For me, I really relished hearing from each student where their project is heading, and what they had uncovered so far. The interview style format, coupled with the relaxed lounge room setting (the bean bags were a big hit)...

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Lyndsey Wright

Research Manager Bushfire CRC

There is more to know

Posted: 40 weeks 2 days ago

The breadth of topics at our three-day annual conference in Perth at the end of last month was quite astounding, even more so considering none were repeats of last year’s conference, and in Melbourne next year, a whole new set of issues will be presented.

Despite the amount of activity currently underway, it is still appropriate to stop and think about areas...

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Gary Morgan

CEO Bushfire CRC

Getting the message out

Posted: 40 weeks 2 days ago

Not only is our annual conference a forum for discussion and debate amongst ourselves, it also provides a great platform to promote the research of the Bushfire CRC out into the wider community.

In Perth at the end of last month, our annual conference attracted more than 1000 delegates. Media interest in the conference is always extremely high and this year was no...

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David Bruce

Communications Manager Bushfire CRC

Author	Title
Douglas Brown	A Study of the Perceived Vulnerability of Domestic Architecture in Bushfire Prone Areas
Dr Richard Phillips Dr Keith Toh	A Tale Of Three C.I.T.I.E.S – Critical Questions to ask about Bushfire Preparedness
Steve Curnin	Achieving Multi-Agency Emergency Management Coordination
Alex Sims	Activity Modelling for Risk Assessment and E.M. Applications Focussing on Peri-Urban Regions
Grahame Douglas	Application of Extreme Value Analysis to Fire Weather Conditions for NSW
Katrina Onus	Awake, Smoky And hot - The Effect Of Carbon Monoxide On Firefighter Health And Performance
Dr Chris Bearman Dr Christine Owen	Breakdowns in Emergency Coordination
Dr Jessica Weir Prof Barbara Norman	Bush Fires, Planning And Contrasting Landscapes
Dr Susan Chaplin Dr Yoko Akama	Bushfire and Ageing in Urban Interface Communities
Dr Keith Toh Dr Richard Phillips	Bushfire Communication Products – A Case for Managing Knowledge
Jessica Stacey Patrick Dunlop Prof Carmen Lawrence Prof Colin MacLeod Prof David Morrison	Bushfire Preparedness: The Development and Validation of a Psychological Preparedness Scale
Rachel Carter	Catastrophic Insurance Regimes
Christine Eriksen Prof Ross Bradstock	Co-Existing With Fire: Managing Risk and Amenity at the Rural / Urban Interface
Katrina Onus	Cognitive Performance In Bush Firefighters
Dr Jeff Kepert	Conceptual Framework For Assessing seasonal, Daily, And Hourly Landscape Moisture And Fuel Energy
Ben Reynolds	Cooperation or Legislation? Bushfire Preparedness in Victoria Post-Black Saturday
Dr Petra Buergelt Patrick Dunlop Prof Carmen Lawrence Prof David Morrison	Core Community-Level Influences Fostering Proactive Preparedness Participants
Mary Cadeddu Prof Jim McLennan	Couple’s Decision-Making Processes Involved in the Formulation of a Long Term Household Bushfire Plan
Cara Lord	Designing A Physical Selection Test: A new Approach
Katie Collins	Development Of A New National Fire Danger Rating System For Australia
David Barton	Disaster in Relation to Attachment, to Community and to Place: The Marysville Experience
Veronique Florec	Economic Analysis Of Prescribed Burning For Wildfire Management In Western Australia
Annette Salter	Educational Strategies in Fire Behaviour Training: The Case of the Bushfire Behaviour Table
Cathy Yinghui Cao Ilona (Illy) McNeill	Effective Communication of Household Bushfire Risk Through Web-Based Geovisualisation
Daniel Collins	Effects of Fire on the Wet Tropical Lowland Forest Eco-Tones in the Wet Tropics of North Queensland After a 1-500 Year Severe Tropical Cyclone: (“Yasi”)
Hari Ram Shrestha	Effects Of Repeated Planned Burning On Carbon Fractions In Soils
Felipe Aires Dr Tina Bell Stuart Matthews	Effects of Woody Weeds on Fuels in Fire-Prone Ecosystems
Prof David Pannell	Exploring Management Actions To Reduce Fire Risk To Naseby, New Zealand
Ilona (Illy) McNeill Patrick Dunlop Prof Timothy Skinner Prof David Morrison	Exposing The Killer in Disaster Planning Through Antecedents of Decision Avoidance
Grace Vincent	Extended Wakefulness and Work Physiology of Wildland Firefighters
Ian French Bob Cechet	F.I.R.E. D.S.T. Fire Impact and Risk Decision Support Tool
Andrew Edwards	Fire Severity Mapping in Australia's Tropical Savannas: CALIBRATION of the algorithm
Tarryn Turnbull	Fires and Hydrology of South Eastern Australian Mixed‐Species Forests
Dr Kevin Tory	Forecasting Wind Direction Variability Using Numerical Weather Prediction Prediction
Dr Liubov Volkova Dr Chris Weston	Forest Carbon Balance and Emission Management
Jim Gould	From The Archives: A New Insight Into Fire Growth Rate and Acceleration
Dr Geoff Cary	Future Bushfire Scenarios
Dr Malcolm Possell Dr Tina Bell	Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fire and their Environmental Effect
Anjali Haikerwal	Health Effects Of Bushfire Smoke
Prof Jim McLennan Glenn Elliott Mary Omodei	Householders’ ‘Black Saturday’ Bushfire Survival Decisions
Dr Kevin Tory Dr Will Thurston Dr Robert Fawcett Dr Jeff Kepert	Idealised Numerical Modelling Of Bushfire Plumes
Colin Simpson	Large Eddy Simulation of Atypical Wildland Fire Spread on Leeward Slopes
Mahfuz Sarwar	Large Eddy Simulation of Fire Behavior In Landscapes
Jafar Hamra	Learning Through Networks within Emergency Management Response
Valerie Densmore Dr Tina Bell Prof Mark Adams	Life from the Ashes – Why Acacias have Re-Grown at Different Densities After Black Saturday
Dr Michael Eburn Prof Stephen Dovers	Mainstreaming Fire and Emergency Management – Directions for Policy Discussion
Amanda Edwards	Managing Bushfire: Diverse Values, Shared Vision? An Evaluation of the Hotspots Fire Training Project
Rowena Morris	Managing Post-Fire Soil Erosion In The Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia
Dr Michelle Short	Managing The Threat: Beyond Endurance Sustaining Operations
Dr Jeff Kepert Mika Peace	Meteorological Aspects of the Margaret River Fires on 23 November 2011
Dr Jeff Kepert Dr Kevin Tory	Modelling the Fire Weather of the Eyre Peninsula Fire of January 2005
Dr Christine Owen Steve Curnin Dr Roshan Bhakta Bhandari	Organizational Features and Their Effect in the Response Process of Emergency Management Organizations
Sondra Dickinson	People on the Move: Why the Term “Community” is Not Synonymous with ‘Neighbourhood’
Vicky Aerts Dr Tina Bell Prof Mark Adams	Plant Physiological Responses to Different Types of Smoke
Petter Nyman Dr Gary Sheridan Dr Patrick Lane	Post-Fire Hydrological Events as Natural Hazards
Dr Matt Plucinski	Predicting The Probability Of Human Caused Bushfire Days In South West Management Regions
Patrick Dunlop Ilona (Illy) McNeill Jessica Stacey Prof David Morrison	Preparing… For What? Exploring the Dimensionality of Wildfire Preparedness
Martijn Van Der Merwe James Minas	Providing Decision Support to Incident Management Teams
Dr Ruth Beilin Karen Reid	Putting ‘It’ Together: Fire Knowledge, Local Landscape Practices and the Integrated Mapping of Everyday Places
Brenda Mackie	Reconceptualising Disaster Warnings: Warning Fatigue and Long Lead Time Disasters
David Rawet	Reflective Practice, Metacognition and Effectiveness in Incident Leadership
Kangmin Moon Dr. Thomas Duff Dr Kevin Tolhurst	Relating Vertical Wind Profiles to Vegetation Structure for Fire Behaviour Prediction
Erin Doolan Prof Jim McLennan	Risk Factors in Residential Fire Fatalities for the Mentally Ill and Socially at Risk
Dr Fabienne Reisen	Rural Urban Interface - Integrated Emissions And Smoke Dispersion From Burning Buildings
Dr Blythe McLennan Prof John Handmer	Sharing Responsibility – So What About It?
Jessica Heath	Ten Years Post-Wildfire Recovery and Health of Eucalypt Forests and Woodland in the Sydney Basin, Australia
Dr Lies Notebaert Prof Colin MacLeod	The Ability to Control the Outcome of a Risk We Are Facing Influences Attentional Preference For Signs of Danger
Marco DeSisto Prof Peter Fairbrother Prof John Handmer	The Complex Network within Bushfire Investigation Strategy an International Comparative Analysis of Communicational Dynamics Between Post-Bushfire Investigative Departments
Brianna Larsen	The Effects Of Heat On Firefighters' Work Behaviour And Physiology During Simulated Firefighting Shifts
Rene Van Der Sant Dr Gary Sheridan Petter Nyman Dr Patrick Lane	The Hydro-Geomorphic Sensitivity of Forested Water Catchments to Wildfire
Alex Wolkow	The Interactions Of Physical Work, Sleep Deprivation And stress Responses
Dr Petra Buergelt Patrick Dunlop Prof Carmen Lawrence Prof David Morrison	The Role of Local Government in Influencing Bushfire Preparedness: Reinforcement of Fuel Reduction on Properties Mitigation
Dr. Thomas Duff Dr Kevin Tolhurst Derek Chong	The Validation of Dynamic Fire Spread Models: Methods for Comparing the Performance of Perimeter Spread Predictions
Dr Mick Meyer	There's No Fire Without Smoke: Modelling Smoke Emissions and Transport from the 2006 Victorian Alpine Fires
Andrew Chapman Patrick Dunlop Ilona (Illy) McNeill Prof David Morrison	Understanding Community and Preparedness: Building Towards Bushfire Prepared Individuals.
Peter Hayes Mary Omodei	Unpacking the Differences in Performance Between Pre-Formed and Ad Hoc Incident Management Teams
James Minas	Use of Spatial Optimisation Methods for Landscape-Level Fuel Treatment Planning
Anastasi Kosmadopoulos	Validating The Sleep/Wake Estimates Of A Physical Activity Monitor With Rural Firefighters
Justin Leonard	Vulnerability and Impact Modeling
Dr Helena Clayton	What Does Economics Have To Offer?
Dr Yoko Akama Dr Susan Chaplin	What is the Role of Social Networks in Fire Preparedness?
Mika Peace	WRF-Fire Simulations of the Kangaroo Island Bushfires
Tarnya Kruger Dr Ruth Beilin Prof Rod Keenan	‘Lie of the Land’– Firefighters Finding Place in the Bushfire Landscape

Author

Title

Douglas Brown

A Study of the Perceived Vulnerability of Domestic Architecture in Bushfire Prone Areas

Dr Richard Phillips

Dr Keith Toh

A Tale Of Three C.I.T.I.E.S – Critical Questions to ask about Bushfire Preparedness

Steve Curnin

Achieving Multi-Agency Emergency Management Coordination

Alex Sims

Activity Modelling for Risk Assessment and E.M. Applications Focussing on Peri-Urban Regions

Grahame Douglas